diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README_ALTIVEC.txt b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README_ALTIVEC.txt index e40c44b82724..f70ebd82bd5c 100644 --- a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README_ALTIVEC.txt +++ b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/README_ALTIVEC.txt @@ -316,14 +316,28 @@ a single target type. This should probably be addressed in the PPCISelDAGToDAG //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// -Currently EXTRACT_VECTOR_ELT and INSERT_VECTOR_ELT are type-legal only for v2f64 with VSX available. We should create custom lowering support for the other vector types. Without this support, we generate sequences with load-hit-store hazards. +Currently EXTRACT_VECTOR_ELT and INSERT_VECTOR_ELT are type-legal only +for v2f64 with VSX available. We should create custom lowering +support for the other vector types. Without this support, we generate +sequences with load-hit-store hazards. -v4f32 can be supported with VSX by shifting the correct element into big-endian lane 0, using xscvspdpn to produce a double-precision representation of the single-precision value in big-endian double-precision lane 0, and reinterpreting lane 0 as an FPR or vector-scalar register. +v4f32 can be supported with VSX by shifting the correct element into +big-endian lane 0, using xscvspdpn to produce a double-precision +representation of the single-precision value in big-endian +double-precision lane 0, and reinterpreting lane 0 as an FPR or +vector-scalar register. -v2i64 can be supported with VSX and P8Vector in the same manner as v2f64, followed by a direct move to a GPR. +v2i64 can be supported with VSX and P8Vector in the same manner as +v2f64, followed by a direct move to a GPR. -v4i32 can be supported with VSX and P8Vector by shifting the correct element into big-endian lane 1, using a direct move to a GPR, and sign-extending the 32-bit result to 64 bits. +v4i32 can be supported with VSX and P8Vector by shifting the correct +element into big-endian lane 1, using a direct move to a GPR, and +sign-extending the 32-bit result to 64 bits. -v8i16 can be supported with VSX and P8Vector by shifting the correct element into big-endian lane 3, using a direct move to a GPR, and sign-extending the 16-bit result to 64 bits. +v8i16 can be supported with VSX and P8Vector by shifting the correct +element into big-endian lane 3, using a direct move to a GPR, and +sign-extending the 16-bit result to 64 bits. -v16i8 can be supported with VSX and P8Vector by shifting the correct element into big-endian lane 7, using a direct move to a GPR, and sign-extending the 8-bit result to 64 bits. +v16i8 can be supported with VSX and P8Vector by shifting the correct +element into big-endian lane 7, using a direct move to a GPR, and +sign-extending the 8-bit result to 64 bits.